im sorry, but im not being disrespecting of opinions here, just expression my own opinion that i found that the fortune s*** very annoying and took up unnecessary space and time to load up terminal time? btw alot of people have requested of removing the stupid fortune thing any ways?????????????

vincent wrote:Knowledge, have you read the first post in this thread and followed Clem's advice? It's really as simple as that...

i've tried that and all i get is another blank terminal line....back where i started...so i tried opening it my self and i only get read only permissions and i'm the only user and administrator on my laptop!

vincent wrote:Knowledge, have you read the first post in this thread and followed Clem's advice? It's really as simple as that...

i've tried that and all i get is another blank terminal line....back where i started...so i tried opening it my self and i only get read only permissions and i'm the only user and administrator on my laptop!

help please

A blank terminal line? Isn't that what you want though? I mean, you don't want fortunes in your terminal, so when you re-open a terminal, you won't see any more fortunes. As I've said, if you followed those instructions and deleted the last line (/usr/bin/mint-fortune) in that bash.bashrc file, save and close it, close the current terminal, and open a new one, you'll no longer see fortunes; I just tried it myself and it works.

Mikeymouse, delete the last line in /etc/bash.bashrc, the line that says /usr/bin/mint-fortune.

vincent wrote:A blank terminal line? Isn't that what you want though? I mean, you don't want fortunes in your terminal, so when you re-open a terminal, you won't see any more fortunes. As I've said, if you followed those instructions and deleted the last line (/usr/bin/mint-fortune) in that bash.bashrc file, save and close it, close the current terminal, and open a new one, you'll no longer see fortunes; I just tried it myself and it works.

Mikeymouse, delete the last line in /etc/bash.bashrc, the line that says /usr/bin/mint-fortune.

i'm trying to do what mikeymouse is trying to do but i can't delete that line! /usr/bin/mint-fortune

the file says i only have read only permissions.....so i can't edit it...therefore i still have fortunes